Understanding and overcoming resistance to PARP inhibitors in cancer therapy

MP Dias, SC Moser, S Ganesan… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
Developing novel targeted anticancer therapies is a major goal of current research. The use
of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors in patients with homologous …

DNA end resection: mechanism and control

P Cejka, LS Symington - Annual review of genetics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are cytotoxic lesions that threaten genome integrity and
cell viability. Typically, cells repair DSBs by either nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) or …

DNA double-strand break repair-pathway choice in somatic mammalian cells

R Scully, A Panday, R Elango, NA Willis - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The major pathways of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair are crucial for maintaining
genomic stability. However, if deployed in an inappropriate cellular context, these same …

The antitumorigenic roles of BRCA1–BARD1 in DNA repair and replication

M Tarsounas, P Sung - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The tumour suppressor breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein (BRCA1) promotes DNA
double-strand break (DSB) repair by homologous recombination and protects DNA …

Repair pathway choices and consequences at the double-strand break

R Ceccaldi, B Rondinelli, AD D'Andrea - Trends in cell biology, 2016 - cell.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are cytotoxic lesions that threaten genomic integrity.
Failure to repair a DSB has deleterious consequences, including genomic instability and cell …

Laying a trap to kill cancer cells: PARP inhibitors and their mechanisms of action

Y Pommier, MJ O'Connor, J De Bono - Science translational medicine, 2016 - science.org
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors are the first DNA damage response
targeted agents approved for cancer therapy. Here, we focus on their molecular mechanism …

How cells ensure correct repair of DNA double-strand breaks

J Her, SF Bunting - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2018 - ASBMB
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) arise regularly in cells and when left unrepaired cause
senescence or cell death. Homologous recombination (HR) and nonhomologous end …

Mechanism and regulation of DNA end resection in eukaryotes

LS Symington - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by homologous recombination (HR) is
initiated by nucleolytic degradation of the 5′-terminated strands in a process termed end …

Regulation of DNA double-strand break repair by ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers

P Schwertman, S Bekker-Jensen… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are highly cytotoxic DNA lesions. The swift recognition
and faithful repair of such damage is crucial for the maintenance of genomic stability, as well …

BRD4 inhibition is synthetic lethal with PARP inhibitors through the induction of homologous recombination deficiency

C Sun, J Yin, Y Fang, J Chen, KJ Jeong, X Chen… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) are selectively active in cells with
homologous recombination (HR) deficiency (HRD) caused by mutations in BRCA1, BRCA2 …